Tabs

Bio

Meredith (Milstein) Brooks is a postdoctoral research fellow focusing on tuberculosis (TB) epidemiology under Dr. Mercedes Becerra. She obtained her PhD in Population Health in 2017 and previously an MPH from Northeastern University. Her research interests include identifying effective implementation strategies to detect exposed individuals at high-risk of developing TB disease and to reduce this risk through rapid uptake of preventive therapy. She previously worked in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine for six years on a wide variety of TB and DR-TB research projects, including international, multi-site clinical trials to evaluate the safety and efficacy of TB treatments.